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Maple Grove Lions Club at a glance

· Public charity

Maple Grove Lions Club

To support the community of maple grove and surrounding communities.

$196k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$236kFood & Nutrition$183kEducation$72kHuman Services$63kCommunity Improvement$28kYouth Development$8kHealth$7kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $47,707, the rows itemized in this filing. The $196,187 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $148,480 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$9,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS FOOD SHELF$30,000
SCHOOL DIST 279$9,050
CITY OF MAPLE GROVE$8,657
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIAS VOICE: $7k → 5%CROSS FOOD SHELF: $50k → 11%LIONS KIDSIGHT USA FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $8k → 14%CROSS: $38k → 11%CROSS: $30k → 11%CROSS FOOD SHELF: $30k → 11%CROSS: $25k → 11%CROSS: $10k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $38k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $31k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $28k → 11%MAPLE GROVE BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON: $28k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $27k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $22k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $19k → 11%MAPLE GROVE LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%MAPLE GROVE LIONS FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $9k → 11%MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $16k → 11%ISD 279 FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ISD 279 FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CITY OF CORCORAN: $24k → 11%ISD 279 FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CITY OF CORCORAN: $22k → 11%SCHOOL DIST 279: $9k → 11%MOBILE HOPE: $6k → 11%DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$547k · 7 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +189% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$547k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+189%
-17%

Still filing today

57%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • C(
    CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
    6× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +189%
  • MV
    MAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +63%
  • D2
    DISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • MG
    MAPLE GROVE BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -19%
  • LK
    LIONS KIDSIGHT USA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Lions Foundation of Victoria

Charitable giving focused on supporting key Lions focus areas of Vision, Hearing, Youth, Veterans, Disaster Relief, Humanitarian Needs, Hunger, Childhood Cancer, Diabetes, and the Environment.

Public Benefit
3
Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

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4
Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancement

Mava advances the power of volunteerism to deepen community impact through uplifting community voice, building connections, providing education, and promoting advocacy.

Civil Rights
5
Minnesota Lions Hearing Foundation Inc

The organization was founded for the purpose of conducting and advancing research and therapy in the field of ear health and communication disorders.

Health
6
Members of Church of Christ for Scouting

In addition to the mission statement noted on Page 1, Part 1, MCCS is an organization independent of but recognized by the Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts USA, Trail Life USA, and American Heritage Girls programs. Our Servant Leadership…

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7
Minnesota State Bar Foundation

The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.

Crime & Legal
8
Megan Meier Foundation

To support and inspire actions to end bullying, cyberbullying and suicide

Youth Development
9
Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.

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10
Big Lake Lions Foundation Inc
Human Services
11
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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12
Central Mn Council of Boy Scouts of America

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is District 279 Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mobile Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MAPLE GROVE: $190,442 · OtherCITY OF MAPLE GROVECITY OF CORCORAN: $46,028 · OtherCITY OF CORCORANDISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $34,050 · OtherDISTRICT 279 FOUNDATIONIND SCHOOL DISTRICT 279: $31,000 · OtherIND SCHOOL DISTRICT 279MAPLE GROVE BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBON: $27,500 · OtherMAPLE GROVE BEYOND THE YELLOW RIBBONCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $182,700 · ReligionCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN S…+1 more: $6,000 · ReligionMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthLIONS KIDSIGHT USA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthMAPLE GROVE LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION: $28,000 · Community ImprovementBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $6,999 · Education
Other$329,020Religion$188,700Health$42,000Community Improvement$28,000Youth Development$7,500Education$6,999

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $182,700 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMAGNUS VETERANS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDISTRICT 279 FOUNDATION: $34,050 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE: $6,999 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMobile Hope: $6,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maple Grove Lions Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maple Grove Lions Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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